Muna Slewa

Title
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email
Department
Mechanical Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Excellent knowledge of using SEM (Scanning Election Microscope) XRD. Microscope, EBSD. Electron Back Scattered Diffraction.

Excellent knowledge of studying the effects of impact on the doors and windows as part of my research work assigned to me by the university.

Excellent knowledge of high impact research and development for ASME A36 steels, 304L Steel HY 100 Steel.

Home design, including kitchens, bathrooms, outside the house, and the garden.

Writing poetry, stories, and novels.





Muna Slewa
  • Over 17 years extensive experience in teaching & instructing in universities & colleges Internationally & over 9 Years in the USA
  • Excellent knowledge of high impact research and development for ASME A36 steels, 304L Steel HY 100 Steel
  • Familiar with explosive welding metallurgical investigation and microstructure study and analysis Supervisor of Mechanical/Materials Engineering Laboratories
  • Research with large Labs like Los Alamos National lab, New Mexico
  • Research with industry, Fisher Space Pen, Boulder City Nevada.
  • Holding Patent about new melting crucibles from Iraqi raw materials Bauxite with some additives like white Doekhla kaolin clay, Alumina, Alumina Hydroxide and sodium silica as binding materials
  • Microscopic analysis using SEM and EBSD Microscope and XRD diffraction
  • Excellent knowledge in Online software and training skills
  • Excellent knowledge in manufacturing processes and workshop operations

  • Excellent knowledge of studying the effects of impact on the doors and windows as part of my research work assigned to me by the university.

Ph.D. DISSERTATION TITLE: Crystalline Phase Change in Steel Alloys due to High Speed Impact

PERSONAL INTERESTS: Writing Poetry, 3D Remodeling Design and Music

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
  • ES 320: Engineering Materials Science
  • ES 321: Engr Materials Science Lab
  • ES 201: Statics

ES321 – Engineering Materials Science Lab

ES201 – Statics

ES320 – Engineering Materials Science




M. Slewa, A. Yousif, University of Technology, Baghdad Treatment of Iraq “Bauxite and its Application in Melting Crucibles“ 2005.

M. Slewa, B. O’Toole, M. Trabia, “Effect of High Velocity Impact on Grain Structure of A36 Steel”, Abstract, Photonic Doppler Velocimetry Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, June 24-26, 2014.

B. O’Toole, M. Trabia, M. Slewa, et al. “Plastic Deformation of Steel Plates under High Impact Loading” Department of Energy and supported Workshop, Las Vegas, NV,  Mar, 28 2014.

M.Slewa, Department of Mechanical Engineering “Investigation of Phase Change in A36 Steel as a Result of High Velocity Impact Loading” Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, May 2014.

Crystalline Phase Change due to High-Speed Impact on A36 Steel  Paper No: IMECE2020-24394, V003T03A008; 20 pages.

https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2020-24394  Published Online: February 16, 2021

Crystalline Phase Changes Due to High-Speed Projectiles Impact on HY100 Steel Paper No: IMECE2021-69956, V003T03A024; 7 pages

https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2021-69956  Published Online: January 25, 2022

Crystalline Phase Changes due to High-Speed Projectiles Impact on 304L Steel

 DOI:10.47363/JEAST/2022(4)157  September 2022

Crystalline Phase Changes due to High-Speed Projectiles Impact on 304L Steel

Paper No: IMECE2022-92028, V003T03A025; 7 pages

https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2022-92028   Published Online: February 8, 2023







TEACHING ASSISTANT                           

  • Taught ME 421L Automatic Controls Lab.
  • Taught ME 302L Materials Mechanics Laboratory.
  • Extensive practical experience using: SEM (Scanning Election Microscope) XRD. Microscope, EBSD. Electron Back Scattered Diffraction Work as a Graduate Research with PDV workshop photonic Doppler Velocimetry (PDV) 2014.
  • Work as a Graduate Research in Los Alamos/ National laboratory.   
  • Researcher at on the Fischer Space Pen.
  • Researches and studies to improve on the Fischer Space Pen products.
  • Research study at Gas Gun Lab.
  • Member of the National Society of Leadership and Success.

  • I am studying the effects of impact on the doors and windows as part of my research work assigned to me by the university. 2024


Taught Subjects:

  • Engineering Materials                             
  • Design Project                                      
  • Manufacturing Processes                        
  • Design Process and Methods                  
  • Computer Lab                                               
  • Undergraduate Math course                    
  • Metallurgy of Materials                           
  • Machine Workshop                               
  • Statics, Dynamics
  • Material Science
  • Strength of Materials
  • Computer Science Lab                           
  • Numerical Analysis                                
  • Metallurgy of Materials                          
  • Machine Design                                    
  • Manufacturing Process
  • Explosive welding

• Academic Advisement Committee/ Chair.

• Member of a committee(someone) to advice students regarding course selection.


• I provide continued support for the growth and functionality of the material inspection lab with proposed purchasing of equipment and instrumentation like Electronic Microscope with back-scattered diffraction EBSD and Vickers hardness testing.


• While teaching consumes most of my time, effort and energy, the service possibilities allow one way to help shape the daily activities of the university and to provide a means of individual contribution to the Collective Campus community.

• Helped many students in their project and did some mechanical testing in the lab.

• I gradually took a bigger role with activities such as the
Research Committee and Society Women Engineers Counselor committee, International Education Diversity Committee.

• I will continue to maintain this active service role in the future as well as continue to volunteer for events such as student overview day, open house, orientation, etc.

• I shared a conference as a speaker online in Parise- France and I had a certificate.

• Member of Promotion and Tenure Committee.

• Member of search Committee



Certificated of appreciations from ERAU October 2017

Certificated from National effective teaching institutes May 2017

Certificated from ASME as a chair November 2020

Certificated from Engineering and Applied Sciences Technology 2022